After a late evening, I awoke and rose slowly to find a cold omelette for breakfast awaiting me as confusion reigned with the children leaving for school. After making some calls, I mowed the lawns and cut up logs as the rain returned. Daniel had a more difficult Physics exam and Debbie found Sundance left out alone in the rain. A satisfactory Liberal Democrat AGM at the Priory Centre and back in time to chat with Di before bed.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has re-affirmed the Salman Rushdie death threat, Japan is embarking on a massive building programme for nuclear power stations and property companies revalue their portfolios with capital losses of up to a sixth in London. The Guinness trial opens at Southwark Crown Court with Earnest Saunders in the dock.
I was late to bed after that KSS meeting last night which did not finish until 10.30pm. I had sat up with a milky drink and then slept well enough but was still tired this morning. Late to breakfast and arrived for a cold omelette as the children milled around in utter confusion on their way out to school! My plans for the day were somewhat disrupted by me wrongly expecting a visitor when he was actually due to come the following day. I stayed in my office all morning, made a few telephone calls to political colleagues and about the purchase of Redgrave Stores and also wrote up these last two days' journal.
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After lunch, I was relieved that the expected rain had yet to arrive and so I got out and mowed the back and riverside lawns and tidied them up. For the riverside lawn, it was the first time that the undergrowth had been controlled since the branches had been dumped there last winter. I then made a determined effort and managed to start the chain saw and proceeded to cut up most of the remaining logs. As I did this, the rain started but I toiled on to get the job done whilst the chain saw was working. I came in to dry out and rest for a little while and then settled into some more paperwork until teatime. The two little boys came swimming this afternoon in the rain and Di had problems with one of them who could not swim yet refused to wear an arm or tummy-band. In the end, she threatened them with my wrath, and they co-operated.
Daniel had a harder time with his Physics examinations today but seemed to have coped all right and should do well as the other candidates were also struggling. Debbie went horse-riding in the rain and found poor Sundance left out in the field in the rain on his own and so spent her time grooming and petting him. The rain stopped later, and I got the chance to store away the logs and clear up a bit before it was time for this evening's meeting.
We had a Liberal Democrat AGM at the Priory Centre and ten people attended and made the necessary resolutions to keep things on an even keel. We only have 50 members in our branch. The councillors stayed around and talked for a while afterwards to compare notes on the plans for a new St Neots sports centre and the bus passes, before we set off for home after 10.00pm. Di was still up when I got back and I chatted with her as I drank my Bournvita before we went off to sleep.
Just when relations between Iran and the UK were returning to normal, the new Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has re-affirmed the Salman Rushdie death threat and suggested that the author be handed over to British Moslems to be killed for blasphemy! Japan is embarking on a massive building programme for nuclear power stations and I hope they will all have the right safety standards, but I do wonder. The stock exchange is easing again as property companies revalue their portfolios with capital losses of up to a sixth in London. The Guinness trial opens at Southwark Crown Court with Earnest Saunders in the dock. The rain continued for quite a while this afternoon and evening and, by the time it had cleared up, it had refreshed the garden quite well.